Corn Plants Need Room To Grow

By Tom Bechman

Row spacing is still a big deal if you’re after maximum corn yields. Most modern planters do a very good job achieving accurate spacing. With equipment like 20/20 SeedSense from Precision Planting, you can monitor performance and make adjustments to get excellent accuracy. However, even planters that perform well are rarely perfect. Sooner or later, you’re going to find a double or a skip.

Dave Nanda found two plants that seemed to be growing together when checking a cornfield recently. The crops consultant for Seed Consultants Inc., sponsor of the Crop Watch project, decided to find out exactly what was going on. He pulled out a tiny hand shovel and carefully dug up both plants. Then he took a knife and determined where the seed for each plant was located.